As Mamdani takes the reins, New York starts to feel like a script Christopher Nolan forgot to write. A socialist Mayor, a restless city, and New Yorkers caught between ambition and anarchy. As I sit here in Sydney, on a Thursday night, watching The Dark Knight Rises I can’t help but think about the latest mayoral race in New York City. There’s something about that skyline - even when it’s fictionalised as Gotham - that gets you. The bridges, the lights, the sheer pulse of i

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I grew up in a right-wing, evangelical Christian home. It was normal. It was all I knew. There was right, and there was wrong. There was...